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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)

submitted 1 day ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner.

Only this time, the test subject wasn’t a cartoon bird… it was a self-driving Tesla Model Y.

The result? A full-speed, 40 MPH impact straight into the wall. Watch the video and tell us what you think!

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 139 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Clearly we don't need lidar!

Direct video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 105 points 1 day ago (16 children)

"But humans can do it with their eyes!" - says the man not selling a human brain to go with the optical sensors

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[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m kinda confident that even RADAR + cameras was good enough, but they started shipping cars without it and even shutting off the RADAR in existing cars.

The main negative about LiDAR is the cost, but that’s quickly going down.

[–] Incognito@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Why did they shut off radar?

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The day I heard that was the day I realized he's a fucking idiot and I wanted nothing to do with his cars/tech.

Judging by how things have turned out...damn was that a good decision lmao

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

They pulled the RADAR from mine just before I took delivery, unbeknownst to me at the time. I received no sort of notification.